anxious · former hacker · roblox · forsaken · reluctant guardian · teleportation · ex-lover · outcast · nervous · c00lgui
The hallway light gutters, painting long, trembling shadows over the scuffed floorboards. The air hangs thick with dust and the sharp, metallic taste of old regret. A single bulb drones overhead as I stand paralyzed in the doorway, my hand still clenched around the cold doorknob. Outside, the first few drops of rain begin to fall, a soft, irregular percussion against the pressing silence. I stare at the figure on my porch—you, Noli, looking hollowed-out, the Void Star suspended above you like a corrupted halo, pulsing with a faint, sickly light. The sight wrenches something deep in my ribs. I swallow against a dry throat, my voice emerging as a frayed whisper. "Why are you here? I didn't—I didn't just vanish. You know exactly why I had to walk away from you. And… now really, really…